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AJf'Wi 9 MILLER.Memorials for the worthy dond arc' among the most gratefal offering# of the living- Wc have just witnessed a beautiful had impressive iilustration of this iu the sublime spootacle of national . devotion on Decoration Day, when patriotic millions, thro' the breadth of u cotitiaeat, garlanded the graves of their fallen heroes, aod eat* blemized their love and mi miration of tho gall not deud, aud thu cause • for whioli they yielded up their Jivea, by gifts of tho aeoBm's choicest llowers, Sack uAitifostatioo) ol' gratitude and affection oashriud the spirit of patriot' iam in tho public heart, perpetuate the memory of illustrious deods, arid excite to life and power the enuobling emu. ktion of excellence.The renowned ehiofuin, the subject of this ariiolu, tras a gouerous and dc* voted benefactor to tho frontier in habitants of Illinois in tiro os of dager aud distress, and though born aod orcd in a region hostile to our country aod trained up in euriy life to war against it, he became a most reliable aud cffioieut friend of early settlors in the Weal.Sbaubaaeo was n native of Canada, I'Dttawutoniie In din u, born at an early period iu tho American Revolution, probably bofaru 1780.-'Chi, Pot Uwatomie# at that time hud uumerous bands and divisiona, located in Canada, iiiehigau, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, aod uthor dtatt's youth utid West. They were powerful men, above oho ordinary size or Europeans, exceedingly athletic and muscular, courageous und formidable iu vrur uud iutelligeu L. above tho average of their savage neighbors. The Pottawatomie#, Meuouienies, Satv, Foxes, Chlppewas, Ottuwas, Kick-apoos, Shawuces, aud other tribes of the West, spovic dialects bearing a strong reseiobiuHce, aud having a common origin io the old Algooquiu tDoguo.The PottuwaUroies iu Illinois, oceu-piod tho region itroucid Luke Michigan aud on the'Illinois and i'o* rirora andsouth of this m Ihr na I'eoria, and West as jar as nouk Hivcr—that being tho line between them oud the Winmrbogoen, who pokc a dialect of •the Sioux luiuungc. 'i’heso tribesthough nour iieigiibura .by pfsiticii, wore in speeuh forci^uors to caeh other. The Puttswatoiuies cuiigratcd from an eitrly day in the history ,i#f • the ' Northwestern territory, and their difforcot tribes were controlled by luoal leaders, Big Thunder, a gigao-tio chief, lived or* the liishwukee, and had bis scat iu what is now the beautiful town of Idelvidere. Caldwell and ftobiusuu, inteiligont and judicious half broodftj managed the affairs of the tribe, at and around tho old French post Of Cbkugo and on the Dos 1‘luin* river; *od Sna-jnahee aa Peace Chief aud Wabuuusec ae War Chief, cxort-cd their ioflucuce uud authority over ihc different localities.Tho UUck..lUwk disturbance be-o »m(f serious but Was aeon temporarily quelled. The war broke out iu earnest, however in 1S32. Biack Hawk, whose luiiiun name was Jlucata luhicatiih—had been ua assoeiatc nrShaunabce under the great Tecutusehio tho Lndiaa wars of the South, and in that between the United States aud £reat Britain in ISIS- He was uo old warrior, nearly or quite seventy yaara of age at the time of which we write, th« indomitable chief of the Sacs and Foxes—a mau of lofty bearing and gieat force oi character, who had been engaged in war front his youth. Ilis chief town, u largo one had beeu locate1 'lt;a tho east bmk of the Mississippi,' - or noartho present site of the city of Uock I^mid j histown bad been burned, and he nod bit tribe driven we§t of the river,hie for mer home being olaimod by the United StaUa under treaty ilipuJationa, which Black Hawk declared were obtained by fraud and fqreo.In hi* coBteicplated raidi againit tbe whitfle eait or MiseiMippj, he had hoped for aid from the Pottawatomie# and Wionebigces, and had sent emit-earies to these tribes to enlist them in bia enterprise. Urgent appaala wero made to Shaubanee by his old eoin-pauitm'Bt-arnia, but in vain. A grand ConooiJ of Pottawatomics was hcTd on the Dea PIuijib rivor, a fow milca w of Chicago j and by tie invitation tho chief#, their tirm and jndioious fritnd, Capt. George H. Walker, of Ottawa was present. Her* Bhauhanee Wabansee, Bobinaon, Caldwell and Walker and other#, denounced the murderous scheme# of Black Hawk, and the tribe resolved to keep peace with tho whites, and aid them should hostilities bo commenced; and at the close of th council, oao hundred brnvcB, with Shaubanee at their head volunteered to act under Uaptain Wil ker, ehould it become necessary fur the border aettjonenta of Northern Illinois, These went to Dixon with Cnpiaia Walker, • aod rondorod inj-portaotacrVice during the war.Previous to tlxo breaking out of thfc war, Sbaubanee crossed the into Iuw*, near the Des Moines riv/r, where he had a loog and seriouB iulAr-view wiih Black Hawk. He besouiht thu chief to deiiit from his throalelcd invasion,: aod warned him of /the corluin destruction of hia powerl to case of boatilitics. ITe told him tVp Americana were a groat and good people, as numerous as tho leaves in I ho foreaisf and that they were irrcsklahly the whole country. Dvt Black Hawk —burning with rev on go, and bittctly complaining of the iojonticc of the Ubited States agon to and of tho bribery acd torruption .of Keokuk, Lib rival, whom he cburged with signing treaties, soiling hie lands and for pay, ivhcrc be bnd oo authorityrojeeto'ii all counsel; and recklta of all ccdbc quouce, announced hie d#tenwination to rccro63 the Mississippi nod aasault the whiten with iinpUcable mejit-rneut.Sbaubanee, thus fiudiug Biavk Hawk aod hia braves eager for bloodshed, and tho war inevitable, has toned back to Illinois to warn the frontier in habitant 9 6f tboir approaching danger. He proclaimed throughout the new settlemeuts lliat Black Hawk had deteroiinod w make a fearful slaughter of the defenceless, aod that the only aafoty of the poople was to leave their scattered homes end to assemble in the towns where they could bo protected by etooknJes nod other defuucea. The old chief sout ont his sons and others of his family and tribe and wont liimnelf, night and . day to give the alarm. Borne hoeded it; others were in credulous. It wna spring time and tbe farmers were plowing and Hooding, mid uuwilling tv luuvu tlicir held*. Sbaiibtnec foudd the fumilteA uf Hull, Davis and Peligrew residing together iu Quc houseou Indiua Creek, a tributary of Fox Iliver, some fill sea tmlc3 from Ottawa, aud in the vicinityMuThewere between fifteen and twenty-,persons in these InmiUea. They were earnestly warned by the chiof as ho approached them on his panting horse. Ho told thorn to flee to Ottawa, where they ooold be protected; that no-time was to bo lost, as Black Hawk’s warriors might attack thorn at. any moment. JI u t th cy uo uld n o t realiz e their danger, mid lie left, bseohing them unxiouely aud with tearB. Had the whites been tbe chief# own kindred Uo would not kavu beuu more eulictt-ous for their safely. Many lives were saved by these warnixga.Black Hawk racrosed the Mississippi early in April, 1852, aod he aod Ids warriorB wore soon on their track of dcsulaikiu. An iu nil Indian warfare, no mercy was shown Io aex, age Or oondition. .After wlug fighting iu the Hock River country, some Bevecty of these aavagoB, in their caure of hav-ou, descended on the little settlement at Indian Creek, «o recently snd enr. ocstly warned al impending danger and iu the open day, xnasaaured the before-mention-d families of Hall, Davis and Petigruw, All the slain, fifteen persons—men, wutuen aud children—were scalped, and their, bodies mutilated and left expowd in the toost shockiug innuner. Three personsSrcsout at the attack ^scoped death, •oe, a liwlc.aou of Mr.. Hall, apraug down tbe buuk of the creek, breaking his arm is the fall, and bid in the brush aad flood wood, aud alier much a uttering rcaehed Ottawa. The other two, daughters of Mr. Hall, aged fifteen aud seventeen respcciivoly, had fled to the , chamber and concealed themselves in: bed, where, after the destruction below had endod, they wisre tliscnym-prl by two young Indiana, why claimed tbe ■'iris for wivas. and to secure their prizes hurried thorn up the Rack River into Wisconsin- Howards lor thotr rescue wore offered by General Atkinson ; utd the giriB. after n captivity oifearful experience, better imagfnnd than ilear.ribed, and fbrtuuately the lato of few, werol'ounC, purchased and returned, by tho chiefs of the Wiouc-bagoee. employed by General Gratiot, and furnished by Mai with articles of Indian flncry, and valuable property for tho ransom of the captivesSoon after Still oi an's defeat, uear Rock River, Sbaubanee rode iota camp at Dixon, then oalled Diion'» Ferry, the headquarter of tic army, in coci*paaj witV the Indiiui Agent, Pierre M«o»idt the eon of n wflH known nio*' oeer of the ntlhe nanift—iho flr*t Lieutenant Governor of lllinoui. Soiheof the militia there, being exoiled by liquor, deblorod that they had oometo tbe Rock River ooaatryto kill Indtan# end that thev would kill SUubanee, and dcmnaded of Menard why he bad brought htt Indian into camp. Ho re-tiled tbit the thief vu on# of theBst and most active frioadi of the whites, end that ho would defend him at the faanrd of hie life, Mr, John Dixon, tho first white eettlar of tbe Rook River Valley, whose house «u headquattcfa, rushed qniijkly .tG the rescue of SbuBbanee and took him to bis family rown, closed him in and guarded the door for hie safety. Gov.' Reynolds mad* Dixon'e home Mb headquarter#, and Kbre he end th^ oth«t-leadera met Shaabatiae. cItia worriiyof remark, that when Black Hswk and Mb brave# went up the Rook.River. VaHoy, bofore military operations had far advauoed, they called at (he house of the .good man Dixon, whom tho Indiana, on I led Ni ohu-sji, (b?ad bail white) and ooo-voreed with him iu tbe most friendly niaunei. That vnocrablo geutlomaiA now nearly ninety years of age, reocht-Ty ?ni'ormod thu wiitor that muoug ytUct vfBucr* at hia house, in tl)a Black Ilawfc war were two yuuug hieutoa-auta of the United Stutea itngtilars j Hubert An de/sou, tho hero, of Fore Sumpter, and Jefferson Davis,ex-Prw-inont of tbe so-called Confcderale Siatcs,—then' friocdJy oasocium;, jiizl# dreuming of Ihoir. future umagonistii io a dbiolatiog civil wur-After the «aptuie of Black Hawk and hi# eon Naaeuakuk (Lord Thunder,) tho prophet Wubokieshick, (White Cloud,) Saopope, brother of the prophet and second iu uocmnand to Black llawk, Wieshick, % Rort ofobiei adjutant, Pomnhoa, a veteran bravo, and Powesbielt. adopted son of thu prophet, and a loading young warrior, who, with others, were taken a9 Uoit-ages to Washington and Fyrriv’88 Monroe; end upon tho close of tha war the Qationsl aQmtniitration reserved from iale for t to ns« of Sliaabance. during his life, the bonutifal grovo in Do Kalb County kuawh a# Shaubaaee's Grove, hie. phioc of roridenco for. mapy years, livre be had a fioc spring and delightful woodland#, nod Lore hia family raised■ corn and made bug*r, and he ,nd his tous ndy over the adjoining country iu pursuit of game. Tho gov-ftrnmeat also, pave him au aouual pern-aion of two hundred dollars, whicfi ww continued until his death.Subsequent to tho warT the Potta-watomics relinquished their luodi in IUinaia for bn extensive land roscrva-tion ia.Kahsas, the a a wild, hut now near tho present Capitol of tluvt State, and SltaQbaaes removed LhitUcr with his family and tribe. But he found hostile Indian beads with reservations near tha Pcltawatamie reservation, which made liis .new homo vory un-ploft?ant. Ouc of hia eou» was killed i difficulty with his savage neighbors, and the sorrowing old chief, in 1840, returned to tbe Grove with his family, consisting of his last vi/e, Po-kftnoka, (bis first wife being buried io the grovu:) hia sons and ditughtors, his SQQS-iU'law and duughters-iu-hw, nod graod-childron, numbering in all about thirty persooe.Alter a few yeara, Sti.'tubuuee, at the solicitation ot his tribe, returned to Kansas, sad it was reported at Washington by porsons wishing hie 7«lnabio grove, that he had abandoned it. The grove was then put into market nod sold; and whec Shaabance returned to Illiaois, he found, to his inexpressible sorrow, that his old home wub gone, ,ad he wept, enyiug ; '*All gone ! Sheu-bnnec got nothing now!1' llo said he loved hi# grovo, that hie first wife and some of his children wero buried there, that he had lived there and that be wished to die thero and ba buriedth his dead: but (hut he hul lost all aud wan vory poor. He then removed to tbe Illinois River, East uf Ottawa, where the citizens of that town and vicinity raised mouey by subscription .nd purchased for him a trscr, of land in the timber on the river, anil erected suitable buildings thereon fui hiui.-voif and family, where ho ever ufior had u pcrmauent home.Sbaubauee, t:ioug;i ucnf.y_ sixty years of u^e at the time of the war, waa then in the prime of vigorous manhood. He was a largo and pertly man, well built both for strength and ogilitv ; corieous and dignified in manner aud bearing, and truly oac of Nature's no bio men. His broad a ad ragged faue was Rt-rangly expressive of kind ness, #ineerltyt uound judgment and that nobility of character which he always exhibited in an om.nent degree. He wad honest and honorable in bis dealing!: and a highly aucial and agreeable neighbor. Ilis nous were much likw him- Smoke, who would probably have succeeded as chief, is described us sl:\ magnificent ft I low, tall uud well proper turned,” with line andhim in box’'—dweribfoj iba otffla— 4‘tb«n one white two ,W down Vvtf Smokfl And wy, O God t 6 God' 1 Q Ood^. Ugb, whita non uiuoh gooJ, muoh good.' 8oa.- tiiuM th» old ehiaf nttandiid religioui mittings with bis lamiiv, and tu always particularly wrefsl that the young should bo attea tire and behave with propriety.'. Shwbaoeo related u*nj aueedotel of hia old lf»der, Tecuuiiflh, whomie admired a« a man ol integrity aud honor, and a warrior of oomuiddmU ability. He a Aid that at « oouneil on the Wi* bwh, during* thunder Btorm,th« light-“tag uraok a tre« near fey, »od bob' Ib.on lira. Teouqiseh at booe aroae, ap. proaobed the tree aud lit hia pipu, a*, Buriog tho wondering chief# :that the Great Spirit had aent them fire at hierequeit, that tbev might light their pipes at the oounoil. Having faaroad lrom the British offlcor# near Detroit ihjit there would be au eclipse ol tha auu on a certain day, Teenmsoh .wfd the Indiana, oome of whom had dii-obeyed him, that the great ypirit would tatuilest his diapIoaSLre ot tfaair eonducteo.tbut dajj, by hiding hia facefrom them. When the day arrived aud tke sun began to bo darkened, the iisubtdianc Indiana aoughttheir chriou and hi# iutoroeiaioD yrilh the rear Spirit Tub fall light was hm^luiiirij- rtfatbvud, «ad «Yvr alWr Ti-mU yuuiuuaudod the rnoit nupiioit idkajuii iivui bid puuplu. SuciL woru f tho uican9 thruugli whicli ibia oiL gifted „ud puwurJui uhmr a,-,uirelt;l and maintained bU uiHrvclbu# iuuirel over the ludifloa from (fauudn to Florida, oiidejmblaed them nguiu^ the governuiijQt of tho Uuitcd Sutet), Siiuubani-u's deauripliou uf the to alterable buttle of the Thames, in whioti Tccuuseb fdl, leaves no doubt th*.t tho lioo-hoartad .Shwnoe chief was killed by Uolooel Uioljard M. Jobnaon. Shaubauco acted as ono of the uida of ToDumseh, and waa standing near him at the time of Ilia cuccuotiir with Jobn-TocutusoL sprang forward toward an uflioer ridiug a grey horeo, and raiecd hi# ivmahawk m kill hitu, wheothe oSeer drew « pistol and shot him. Sbaubaaeo said .Tecunjseh had boen wounded in the batrle u Dumber cf ticica before, but the . officer on the groy horao killed him. Ofxhii he pu»«Lvc, and ep»Lo Ifoin nctual kuowJedgc, und his stutemont agrees prccisily with the account ot' Doloncl John son, who said ho rode a favorite grey which had been mortally wounded aud was dfaubiod ut Lbo time he drew his pUtol from its holtter and shot 'iV cumsoh, Atber the talL of Teoumseh, all, as BUaubanee related, fled m dismay^ “ladiuna and KoddJotlB all run, SUaal;aauepuuk-a-Bheo.”-r-(ihAabAaeii ruu iuo,) ‘'Ho nevor xucro fight Met* icadB I IJgh, tiflvor, neverl’1 .Alter a brio! Jllaess, ShdclKdOec :Ji»«d hia life of varied .foftatics at hia home on the Illinois river, July 13th, 185U, ugod more than fourscore yoarB—ouc of the last famous chioit of a race rapidly, disippewiiig before tho iburch of oivilizatiuu, iid Lr*velin]£ toward the Betting BU u. He .was h uried amid tho tolling of bells, iu the aity of Morri8, where a largo eoncourBO. attended hia funeral. When the tidmgB of his death were announced, throughout the State, all acquainted with ila oarly history felt the loss of one entitled togratoful rciuouibrHDou.; a uobl® chiof, worthy of u monuinontineoribed, Sacred to the memory of Shaufaaucu —the Friend of the White#/’EVERYBODY READ!MATTHEWS DRUG STOREOn Kill Strut. DinMatthewsFancy and Toilet Articles,OUi. I'uiliMATTHEW S’■Iflp.vrs WANTIJn FOBi Triumphs of BEterpriseA Non Book hr JuincK I’hiIoh.difatluguiahedjike Uod fame, lor his Jaudahle uuipoi’m in the rejection ol1 nil iuwxieutiag drinks. This promising young mau died in Iowa, whore Shubauee watchod over him with nil the soliri’.ude of ■ loving father. The white# Byap*thi2ed with tho afflicccd chief, attended kindly upon the ton In his Biekues, and buried him with respectful funeral rites The old ohiel often alluded to tfeia with gratitude tod tears. He said: ;i White man otucb good to Smoke, take oare of him tick, and when dead putWINES AND LIQUORS. ^ItaKK A 00., fuMlihriWOMJ.NA8 A Dr fyr it. CIpua*. in BVtry fliollr, ■•fiiln ft molh»TH *n,l, M. D. A wDrtt. i»Sicl 11
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